The Good EarthNobel Laureate Pearl S. Buck’s epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and Oprah Book Club selection about a vanished China and one family’s shifting fortunes. Though more than seventy years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. In The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck paints an indelible portrait of China in the 1920s, when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings. This moving, classic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-Lan is must reading for those who would fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during the last century. Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life: its terrors, its passions, its ambitions and rewards. Her brilliant novel—beloved by millions of readers—is a universal tale of an ordinary family caught in the tide of history. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 25 |
Section 3 | 32 |
Section 4 | 39 |
Section 5 | 46 |
Section 6 | 54 |
Section 7 | 59 |
Section 8 | 67 |
Section 19 | 176 |
Section 20 | 187 |
Section 21 | 200 |
Section 22 | 212 |
Section 23 | 220 |
Section 24 | 235 |
Section 25 | 245 |
Section 26 | 254 |
Section 9 | 76 |
Section 10 | 89 |
Section 11 | 93 |
Section 12 | 105 |
Section 13 | 113 |
Section 14 | 120 |
Section 15 | 138 |
Section 16 | 144 |
Section 17 | 157 |
Section 18 | 165 |
Section 27 | 270 |
Section 28 | 281 |
Section 29 | 294 |
Section 30 | 306 |
Section 31 | 319 |
Section 32 | 330 |
Section 33 | 339 |
Section 34 | 348 |
Section 35 | 359 |
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anger answered asked bear beside body bought bowl called child Ching clothes court cried Cuckoo dark dead door earth eldest eyes face father fear feet fields filled first flesh fool gate gave girl give gone grew hair hand harvest head hear heard heart knew labor land laughed lived looked Lord Lotus Lung’s maid man’s morning mother moved never night O-lan once opened passed piece poor rain remembered rice rich rose seemed seen sell silent silver slave sleep slept sons speak spoke stood streets suddenly talk thing thought took town turned uncle uncle’s village voice waited walked wall Wang Lung watched wife wish woman women young